Essays category: 9344 books
Color Me English
Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
The bestselling author Caryl Phillips has for years written about and explored the experience of migration through his spellbinding and award-winning novels, plays, and essays. In this fascinating collection he looks at the notion of belonging prior to and following 9/11, beginning with a reflection...
by Sloane Crosley
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
From the author of the sensational bestseller I Was Told There'd Be Cake comes a new book of personal essays brimming with all the charm and wit that have earned Sloane Crosley widespread acclaim, award nominations, and an ever-growing cadre of loyal fans. In Cake readers were introduced to the foibles...
All Art Is Propaganda
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low. A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell...
Today's Best Military Writing
The Finest Articles on the Past, Present, and Future of the U.S. Military
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Today's Best Military Writing is the first-ever collection of the finest articles on the military published in the past five years. Esteemed military historian and bestselling author Walter J. Boyne has gathered twenty-one writers, both military and civilian, and their published articles and essays...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
This compilation includes the following essays by the famous author: The Service Paradise (to be) Regained Herald of Freedom Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum Thomas Carlyle and His Works On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Slavery in Massachusetts A Plea for Captain John Brown The Last Days of John Brown Life Without Principle
Eye of My Heart
27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being a Grandmother
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
“Finally, a look at grandmothering that is decidedly unsentimental. These clear-eyed essays offer humor and insight as they take on the multigenerational lives many of us now lead.” –Cokie Roberts, author of We Are Our Mothers' Daughters
In this groundbreaking collection, twenty-seven...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
The fear of death, the pain of bereavement, the art of consolation, and the custom of mourning—these are experiences with which all mortals must reckon. In The Grim Reader, editors Maura Spiegel and Richard Tristman have gathered the best classic and contemporary writing on mortality—from...
Reading 1759
Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British “year of victories” during the Seven Years’ War, 1759 was also an important year in the histories of fiction, philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics....
Sidetracks
Explorations of a Romantic Biographer
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
With this collection of short and fascinating biographical pieces*,* the award-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley offers a fascinating glimpse into the mysterious art of biography.
When researching, Richard Holmes has often become captivated by figures peripheral to his main subject,...
by Henry Louis Gates
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Educator, writer, critic, intellectual, film-maker-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been widely praised as being one of America's most prominent and prolific scholars. In what will be an essential volume, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Reader collects three decades of writings from his many fields of interest...
Only Child
Writers on the Singular Joys and Solitary Sorrows of Growing Up Solo
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Only children don’t have to share bedrooms, toys, or the backseat of a car. They don’t have to share allowances, inheritances, or their parents’ attention. But when they get into trouble, they can’t just blame their imaginary friends. In Only Child, twenty-one acclaimed writers tell the truth...
by Blake Petit
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
When a superhero dies, nobody thinks they'll stay dead. When a superhero kills, everybody gets up in arms. When someone close to a superhero bites the bullet, no one knows what to think. A REVOLVING DOOR IN HEAVEN is a series of handy essays about the phenomenon of death (and life) in mainstream American...
Browse
The World in Bookshops
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
A celebration of the greatest kind of shop in the world, by an award-winning cast of writers including Ali Smith, Michael Dirda, Elif Shafak and Daniel Kehlmann.
A cabinet of curiosities, a time machine, a treasure trove - we love bookshops because they possess a unique kind of magic. In Browse,...
Paper Trails
The Life and Times of Pete Dexter
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In the 1970s and 1980s, before he earned national acclaim for his award-winning novels, Pete Dexter was a newspaper columnist. Every week, in a few hundred words, Dexter cut directly to the heart of the American character at a time of national turmoil and crucial change. With haunting urgency, his...